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Bill Stancil presents Rockhurst University: The First 100 Years, a lecture supplemented with numerous historical...

From bandits to gangsters, from kidnappers to gunslinging evangelists, Kansas City has proved to be a hotbed for criminals. In Kansas...

The classic children’s novel Robinson Crusoe bears little resemblance to the novel authored by Daniel DeFoe in 1719. Dec...

American life changed forever in 1960 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered politics into the multi...

The Midwest Democracy Project hosts a forum exploring the question: What is the 21st century mission of our public schools? Parti...

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. David Kessler discusses his new book The End of Overeating...

On Thursday, October 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.,...

Steven Epstein discusses the politically-charged debate surrounding Gardasil and other vaccines on Thursday,...

Gwen Cooper already had two cats, financial problems and a broken heart. Yet, when she learned about an abandoned, eyeless kitten...

The Kansas City Public Library marks the launch of a new book, Elmwood Cemetery: Stories of Kansas City, on Wed...